Dieting makes you Fat
July 16th, 2008
In the 1980’s Geoffrey Cannon wrote a book called Dieting Makes you Fat.
He has now completely re-written it in the light of what he has found out in the intervening years.
The first part of the book is a truly fascinating agglomeration of facts on every aspect of diet and dieting throughout the world, and looking from the viewpoint of Society and Government.
The second part lays out 7 golden rules to follow to change your attitude to food, to nutrition and to body weight and fitness.
These golden rules are to be absorbed into your lifestyle one at a time, introducing one each month, so that a complete transformation is effected in 7 months.
A fascinating book- and I’ll let you know how effective his ideas turn out to be…!
“We are What We Do”
July 14th, 2008
We are what we do.
It’s a great saying.
But it’s also the name of an amazing movement.
I can do no better than quote what they say about themselves..
“We are What we Do - Who are we?
We’re not another charity. We’re not an institution. We Are What We Do is a movement. Our aim is to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. Whoever they are. And wherever they are. And that includes you.
We live by the maxim small actions X lots of people = big change. It’s not rocket science but it does work!
We started back in 2004 by bringing together 100 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities and make our planet and the people on it much happier. We believe that if enough of us do these actions we will start to make an impact on some of the biggest problems we are all facing. And in joining together in this way, we will create a new community of like-minded “do-ers”; people united by a belief in the possibility of change and our individual responsibility in making it happen alongside that of governments, corporations and other institutions and networks.
We began by putting the 100 actions into books - Change the World for a Fiver and Change the World 9 to 5 - but the books quickly burst their bindings and so far have sold nearly one million copies worldwide. Today we are books, bags, campaigns, education programmes, community development, public speaking, newsletters, more than one million actions pledged on this website, partnerships with a huge range of different organisations and a growing on-line community to which we hope to shortly add you!”
The website is here
Take a look for lots and lots of little things which, if we all do them, will make a difference
Hotel Chocolat comes to the US!
July 13th, 2008
Whenever I want to really treat myself or my friends, it has to be gourmet chocolates from Hotel Chocolat.
Up to now, that has only been possible in the UK.
But now Hotel Chocolat has built a distribution hub in the US, from where these scrumptious chocolates can be sent anywhere in the US.
So take a look -and *treat yourself!
